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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Good or bad idea
Date: 16 Jun 2015 15:26:23 GMT
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On 2015-06-16, John <Man@the.keyboard> wrote:
> On 15 Jun 2015 15:32:49 GMT, Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>>On 2015-06-15, John <Man@the.keyboard> wrote:
>>> On 14 Jun 2015 21:32:18 GMT, Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>You could probably write a script to create a CSV file (just a text file
>>>>with contents that conform to CSV) that I could open with any
>>>>spreadsheet program to view. The script would just loop through all keys
>>>>in each key chain, and write every key as a line in the CSV file. 
>>>
>>>  Bugger that, too much like work.
>>
>>Not much work for me; but then I'm a software developer.
>
>  Yeah, me, too, once, a long, long time ago. Getting the job done
> would not be a massive task but it's work I wouldn't bother doing as

Meh. Writing such a script would take around 15 minutes of work and
would allow me to export the data in any format I want, rather than
being stuck with less useful screen shots and so on.

> Apple have kindly produced and installed about a dozen different ways
> of doing the job with a few keystrokes. 

You've made a list of them?

>  I'm sure Microsoft and the million or so *Nixxy distros have also do
> so. :)
>  But if you're happy to write more ways to do it, and if that's fun
> for you, that's good, too. :)

For my uses, a spreadsheet would be best. If Apple gives you a way to do
that without scripting, please share. : )

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